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View the Moon in 3D on Your Desktop
TheBeansprout writes "You can now view the moon in 3D With NASA World Wind with two sets of Clementine data and full placenames. "We have just digested the best of the images, so we can now deliver the moon at 66 feet (20 meters) of resolution" says Patrick Hogan, World Wind project manager at NASA Ames. "This is a first. No one has ever explored our moon in the 3-D interactive environment that World Wind creates," he adds. Download World Wind and view the quick tutorial or tour to interact, and there's some moon screenshots available too. A linux version of World Wind is slated for early 2006."
Now I dont even have to move to the window to see the moon
...time to eBay my new telescope.
...and Earth is at 500m per pixel (BlueMarbleNG)?
...while we wait for Linux version, is anyone working on getting this stuff to Celestia? Would rock if the two programs could easily use the same data though.
The screenshots seem nice, but regrettably not really too much more impressive than what you can already do with Celestia. =(
This helps much. Now Aibo the robot dog can bark at the moon without exposing himself to the dangerously dirty and humid environment outside. Saves on the repair bill tremendously.
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Mandatory Wikipedia link.
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
Of course they couldn't stay behind after Google released Google Moon but this looks way more promising...
Let me just say: Cool!!! (-9F, 451R, -23C, 250K on the average that is...)
What, no Uranus joke yet??
I guess this means we still won't be able to see the landing sites in enough detail? Maybe someone with more knowledge can explain why we can't provide a higher resolution for these images if we can see celestial objects millions of light years away...
According to the Wiki FAQ anyone is encouraged to work on the port of the current version with some resources they have made available and the next version (January 2006) should be cross-platform.
It is indeed heartening to note that there is a plan to push out a Linux version, unlike Google which altogether seems to have forgotten the linux user.
What is even sadder about Google is that it being a Linux shop, having derived so much benefit from the existence of Linux, refuses to actually return anything to the user community.
the 22 CD ROMs from the Clementine project can be accessed from here
d im-mosaic-v1.0/
a tegory=hires
http://starbase.jpl.nasa.gov/archive/clem1-l-h-5-
(jpegs are in the browse directories)
or if you have not the got the bandwidth they are only 220 USD from
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/cd-rom/web_store.cgi?c
now if only I could find a the above as a DVD torrent, hmmm
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if you could see the remains from the lunar landings. Of course, for the tin foil hat crowd, that would mean that the images were of Arizona.
There are no loopholes. It's either legal or it's not.
When you zoom in all the way, is it made of cheese?
Try it.
On se Internetz nobody noes your German.
I can't find a torrent link. Somebody care to oblige?
You want the moon on a bloody stick?! :)
I use Linux !11/1/1;1!!!!1 I'm staying behind on the information superhighway !1!!!!
According to the developer they are planning to create a Java version for linux as well as the C#/DirectX version they have now:i nd-dev/2005-September/000736.html
.Net based apps (maybe not that far off? Wine DirectX already works for many modern games).
http://mail.worldwindcentral.com/pipermail/worldw
This is nuts! Trying to make one big complicated from work is hard enough, making two versions of it written in different languages is inexplicable! The only real reason hinted at is that Microsoft wouldn't like NASA using Mono for an official application. Does Microsoft really want NASA to use Java just to spite Mono?
Download the code for WorldWind and have a look, then consider porting it to Java/OpenGL/Java3D. Then consider just using Mono with OpenGL bindings. Or consider funding Wine so it supports
Somebody talk some sense into them. Or tell me why I'm wrong, either way someone has to sort this out otherwise it's going to be a massive waste of time and money.
I'm ranting, I know - can anyone else see how backward this is?
they are not finished yet photoshopping the phoney lander in!
10 ?"Hello World" life was simple then
"This is a first. No one has ever explored our moon in the 3-D interactive environment that World Wind creates,"
I think Neil Armstrong would have something to say about that.
liqbase
Bring on the linux version - World Wind requires the hateful .NET v1.1, installing which has destroyed two of my Windows 2000 machines.
...is completely black! What a surprise! When you zoom in, there's nothing to see.
Move along now, nothing to see.
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silas
hobbit
"There is no dark side on the Moon, really. Matter of fact, it's all dark."
Quantum mechanics: the dreams that stuff is made of.
That's the real reason BillG named his O/S Windows! he knew some day we are gonna look at the screen and view the physical world, including the moon...
"... so we can now deliver the moon at 66 feet (20 meters) of resolution ..."
"Lord Vader, is our conquest complete?"
"The moon is to be delivered into our hands tonight, my Master"
Odd choice of words there, but whatever. This is teh cool3st. Can't wait for the Linux version!
and there's some moon screenshots available too
So much for actually looking out the window to see what the moon looks like!
A goatse image on the Road Map page within 30minutes of the Slashdotting. You're getting slow dudes :p
I didn't mention in the article, but there is a partial clone of World Wind for Linux done by a community member.See the thread here for more info.
People can also join #worldwind on irc.freenode.net. That's probably the best way to get involved with developing and find out what's where.
And lastly...yes, Mars is on the way. Stay tuned.
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It amazes me that so many allegedly "educated" people have fallen so quickly and so hard for a fraudulent fabrication of such laughable proportions. The very idea that a gigantic ball of rock happens to orbit our planet, showing itself in neat, four-week cycles -- with the same side facing us all the time -- is ludicrous. Furthermore, it is an insult to common sense and a damnable affront to intellectual honesty and integrity. That people actually believe it is evidence that the liberals have wrested the last vestiges of control of our public school system from decent, God-fearing Americans (as if any further evidence was needed! Daddy's Roommate? God Almighty!)
.. the next time you're out in the backyard exercising your Second Amendment rights, the liberals will see it! These satellites are sensitive enough to tell the difference between a Colt .45 and a .38 Special! And when they detect you with a firearm, their computers cross-reference the address to figure out your name, and then an enormous database housed at Berkeley is updated with information about you.
Documentaries such as Enemy of the State have accurately portrayed the elaborate, byzantine network of surveillance satellites that the liberals have sent into space to spy on law-abiding Americans. Equipped with technology developed by Handgun Control, Inc., these satellites have the ability to detect firearms from hundreds of kilometers up. That's right, neighbors
Of course, this all works fine during the day, but what about at night? Even the liberals can't control the rotation of the Earth to prevent nightfall from setting in (only Joshua was able to ask for that particular favor!) That's where the "moon" comes in. Powered by nuclear reactors, the "moon" is nothing more than an enormous balloon, emitting trillions of candlepower of gun-revealing light. Piloted by key members of the liberal community, the "moon" is strategically moved across the country, pointing out those who dare to make use of their God-given rights at night!
Yes, I know this probably sounds paranoid and preposterous, but consider this. Despite what the revisionist historians tell you, there is no mention of the "moon" anywhere in literature or historical documents -- anywhere -- before 1950. That is when it was initially launched. When President Josef Kennedy, at the State of the Union address, proclaimed "We choose to go to the moon", he may as well have said "We choose to go to the weather balloon." The subsequent faking of a "moon" landing on national TV was the first step in a long history of the erosion of our constitutional rights by leftists in this country. No longer can we hide from our government when the sun goes down.
We recently had heard in the office over one of the Yellow Machine that's made by Anthology Solutions.
For the last couple of months I have been checking obstinately if high-resolution data was finally available for my location - Utrecht, the Netherlands. But to no avail, I still have to manage with a measly 30m resolution. I can't quite see my house from up here!
I understood the general reason for it - You start with the large cities and work down from there. There is little reason to provide hires data of the Sahara.
But now we have been taken over by THE FRIGGIN' MOON! The data of that desolate celestial body is more accurate than the data of the Netherlands.
No Mac or GNU/Linux versions. it is based on DirectX and .Net :-S
An article about viewing the moon. A name that involves wind. And a wiki...
And you really thought this was not going to happen? You must be new here!
I doubt the Americans have seen "The Mighty Boosh".
[O yes we have]
(O no you haven't)
British comedy, isn't that Monty Python? "Oh I really like Are you being served", etc, etc.
We should have images of the moon with left over equipment in view, such as rover vehicles and flags and Lunar modules. Why has nobody had any images of this stuff on the surface? They didn't go to the moon in the 60's lets face it. We would have had long range images from Earth showing all this crap still sitting there on the moon, but no... Nobody ever has seen that, just like this application doesn't see it. Without proof, it didn't happen!
I enjoy listening to Pink Floyd while exploring the moon.
I have found that it is not made of cheese, it is made of pixels.
He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson
Windows users get the Earth and the Moon. We get a spinning beachball.
It's called "looking up" folks!
If someone says he and his monkey have nothing to hide, they almost certainly do.
The so-called "Dark Side" of the Moon is actually dark! At least, stripes of it...
Nuffsaid
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Don't know about his cat, but Schroedinger is definitely dead.
I think it would be cool if the functionality of the two was merged. Just imagine have finished looking at our solar system, being able to come back to Earth and zoom into your house :)
Jumpstart the tartan drive.
Just downloaded the source code and noticed that it was written in C# of all languages. I suppose it wouldn't have been any better had it been written in Objective-C. Looks like if we want a true multi-platform version, then we need need to port it to a true multi-platform language, such as C/++ or Java (propriety, but has VMs on most platforms).
It may just be easier to work out the architecture and just do a rewrite.
Jumpstart the tartan drive.
I'm always fascinated by tiny inconsistencies. For instance, in this picture of the dark side of the moon, there are a few areas that haven't been photographed. The areas are in relatively consistent patterns, where the sattelite's camera may have malfunctioned or the orbit didn't cover certain areas. All except for one. Check out the top right, on the left side of a large crater. It's an outlier, all by itself, smack in the middle of an interesting formation. Wouldn't they have tried to get that spot again, on a second go around? Why is it missing? And why isn't it part of a patern like the others?
"This is a first. No one has ever explored our moon in the 3-D interactive environment that World Wind creates," Perhaps it is because in all previous versions that myself and others ran that World Wind crashed?
That just wasn't him that came back!
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Inignot: You and your third dimension.
Frylock: What about it?
Inignot: Oh, nothing, it's cute. We have five.
Err: Th... thousand.
Inignot: Yes, five thousand.
Err: Don't question it.
Frylock: Oh, yeah? Well, I only see two.
Inignot: Well, that sounds like a personal problem.
You must think in Russian.
That world wind is bloat ware... and that its 20 meters - too far away, I want to be able to see the flag :)
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
I've read this before. Mr. plagiarizing karma farmer.
l l%20have%20said%20%22We%20choose%20to%20go%20to%20 the%20weather%20balloon.%22%20
In fact, a google search for some key text reveals two postings to slashdot alone. http://www.google.com/search?q=he%20may%20as%20we
Can you be Even More Awesome?!
Could anyone tell me what will stop anyone using those jpegs in Earth3d?
http://www.earth3d.org/
I was roaming around with that thing and zooming in on countries. Somehow I ended up in the middle east and roamed near israel. Looked around for Palestine... THERE is not such thing! According to NASA's map whatever is called Palestine just belongs to Jordan, the rest to israel :P
What does that tell you?
its ok to look at the moon but dont go there. on the moon nerds get their pants pulled down and they are spanked with moonrocks!!!
Google is hosting a nice site called moon.google.com that's similar to google maps. You can actually zoom in close and see detailed views of the moons construction.
Highly recommended
Don't anthropomorphize computers, they don't like it.
So, now we're getting mooned from our own computers? What will they show us next? Uranus?
Slow down, cowboy! It has been 4 hours since you last posted. You must wait another few hours.
But not as much as a spoon...!
fud, notfud, yes, no, maybe
They swear not on a Bible, I've said many times: testimony that is not sworn as true and complete and correct and not mis-leading and in unlimited commercial liability, in affidavit form and witnessed by a notary; is of no value.
With all the computer graphics improving at such a phenomenal appearance to natural environmental conditions, it would possible now to fake any artifact or extra-terrestrial event or passage of time and money for purposes of fraud. The falsified UFO picture are an example, so there is no ill will that the same scrutiny is applied to the moon-landing photographs. It was a long time ago, and because all the astronaughts never did swear to the public AND private long ago, they would doubtless recall the events with same precission as an earlier "story" or at the actual site of the occasion. There was this one man, alleged by the News corporations abroad to be a "conspiracy theorist", despite having a persona remeniscent of selling air (and News Air, btw). He arranged a somwhat biased botch with some fictional childrens' entertainment and unknowing to Buzz Aldrin. He, Bart Sibrel, asked Buzz Aldrin to swear on a Bible that they walked on the moon. Now before anyone accuses me of not letting this matter rest, it is only good that I bring it up so people can learn from these previous attempts of people to mis-lead or accuse or incompletly recuse eachother. Anyways, the conclusion to Bart Sibrel's question was Aldrin punching him in the face. That's not a verry honorable outcome, but expected of one's character being prematuraly slandered despite the same character enjoining to improved prejudice as a celebrated hero. Bart Sibrel immediatly asked his cameraman "did you get that[?]", and they moved in opposing directions.
There is a Google cache of another forum conversing the accusations, with a link to the Video of Aldrin punching Sibrel.
without prejudice
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Well, they do have a partnership now, I remember reading it somewhere.
Why all the different and unrelated names for each feature? This makes "World Wind" confusing to use at first...
Check this out, looks like an object with the number 6 on it.
2 98&alt=135749&dir=93.5&tilt=11.4
worldwind://goto/world=Moon&lat=25.00002&lon=6.55
Launches from the browser in Linux (386) and windows
http://www.antlersoft.com/demo3d/mars/index.html/